Writers Working: Bring Out Your Dead!

Bring an old piece of writing to get ideas on how to revise.

You can attend this program online or in person. To take part online, use the “Join Meeting” button above. Masks are recommended at all in-person library events.

What do we with the stories that we’ve pronounced dead? Can you bring them back to life with a few stolen body parts and an electrical storm? In this workshop, we’ll look at revision as resuscitation. Bring an old piece that you’ve tucked away, and we’ll see if we can breathe some life into it.

Kristin Dorsey is a Professor in the Humanities Department at Central Oregon Community College. She’s a generalist, which means that she teaches a variety of academic and creative writing classes, along with literature classes from Early American literature to Children’s literature.

Central Oregon Writers Guild’s mission is to provide Central Oregon area writers a forum for mutual support and education through meetings, annual events and workshops. Our goal is to advance growth and success for individual writers of all genres and skill levels. Founded in 2002, the Guild is a non-profit organization, run entirely by volunteers.